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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
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22 July 2022

Visual crowdsensing applications using built-in cameras in smartphones have recently attracted researchers’ interest. Making the most out of the limited resources to acquire the most helpful images from the public is a challenge in disaster rec...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
409 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2026

Recent advances in digital technologies are transforming the production and visualization of 3D models for Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and cultural heritage reconstruction. Within this evolving context, ensuring scientifically groun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Motion Capture and 3D Reconstruction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
916 Views
25 Pages

An Interoperable Framework for Heritage Building Monitoring Integrating IFC-BIM, CityGML, and Immersive Visualization

  • Lea Kristi Agustina,
  • Deni Suwardhi,
  • Iwan Purnama,
  • Ketut Wikantika and ,
  • Ilham Gumeraruloh Arianto,
  • Wahyunan Andika and
  • Agung Budi Harto
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Preserving cultural heritage sites requires an interoperable digital framework capable of integrating heterogeneous spatial data and supporting immersive interaction for inspection and management. This study investigates the integration of multiple h...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Heritage)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,670 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

Despite the critical importance of biomedical databases like MEDLINE, users are often hampered by search tools with stagnant designs that fail to support complex exploratory tasks. To address this limitation, we synthesized research from visual analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
45 Pages

20 August 2026

Immersive visualization can support interpretation of architectural heritage in historical paintings, yet translating 2D pictorial evidence into navigable 3D scenes remains challenging. Conventional workflows rely on physical survey data, while direc...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,920 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2020

The importance of cybersecurity has recently been increasing. A malware coder writes malware into normal executable files. A computer is more likely to be infected by malware when users have easy access to various executables. Malware is considered a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models in Security, Defense, Cyber Security and Cyber Defense)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
219 Views
16 Pages

Secure QR-based data transfer requires a careful balance between confidentiality, payload size, decoding reliability, and resistance to visual degradation. This paper presents a reproducible comparative framework for studying secure QR code transmiss...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The International Conference on Electronics, Engineering Physics and Earth Science (EEPES2026))
  • Article
  • Open Access
615 Views
18 Pages

A Hybrid PNN–XGBoost Framework for Gas–Water Flow Pattern Prediction and 3D Visualization in Near-Horizontal Wells

  • Tong Lei,
  • Junfeng Liu,
  • Rongqi Yang,
  • Yu Chen and ,
  • Tianjun Zhang and
  • Zhongliang Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 March 2026

The distribution of gas–water two-phase flow in near-horizontal wells is influenced by factors such as wellbore inclination and phase flow rates. To explore these effects, a laboratory loop simulating downhole conditions was used to conduct exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Acquisition, Processing, Analysis Methods and Process Control in Energy Exploration Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,440 Views
43 Pages

GeoJSEval: An Automated Evaluation Framework for Large Language Models on JavaScript-Based Geospatial Computation and Visualization Code Generation

  • Guanyu Chen,
  • Haoyue Jiao,
  • Shuyang Hou,
  • Ziqi Liu and ,
  • Lutong Xie,
  • Shaowen Wu,
  • Huayi Wu,
  • Xuefeng Guan and
  • Zhipeng Gui
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

With the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in code generation tasks, geospatial code generation has emerged as a critical frontier in the integration of artificial intelligence and geoscientific analysis. This growing trend undersco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
578 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2026

Bio-inspired architectural design increasingly relies on generative artificial intelligence to expand early-stage concept exploration, yet current workflows often suffer from vague requirement definition, subjective proposal selection, and weak conne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimicry, Eco-Mimicry and Eco-Design in Architecture: Transformation towards Sustainable Regeneration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,289 Views
27 Pages

Urban visual pollution, mainly driven by outdoor advertisements, is becoming increasingly prevalent in built environments. While urban visual pollution and outdoor advertising have been thoroughly examined in the Global North, less is known about the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,598 Views
23 Pages

Brain age has been widely recognized as an important biomarker for monitoring adolescent brain development and assessing dementia risk. However, existing model visualization methods primarily highlight brain regions associated with aging, making it d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image and Signal Processing Techniques and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,179 Views
26 Pages

20 April 2026

Underground utilities form an essential part of urban infrastructure, yet their importance often becomes apparent only when service disruptions occur. Excavation activities for maintenance, relocation, or new construction carry considerable risks, in...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,191 Views
26 Pages

21 May 2025

This study proposes an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV)-oriented hierarchical reinforcement learning framework to address the temporal abstraction challenge in autonomous within-visual-range air combat (WVRAC) for UCAVs. The incorporation of max...

(This article belongs to the Collection Drones for Security and Defense Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,256 Views
28 Pages

31 January 2026

Modern telemedicine requires advanced analytical solutions for efficient management of chronic diseases. This study presents the development of a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) framework using Microsoft Power BI, applied to the optimization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Intelligence and Data Analytics in Enterprise Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
532 Views
21 Pages

13 July 2026

Rolling-element bearings remain a leading cause of unplanned downtime in industrial machinery, while vibration-based condition monitoring has matured, the post-2018 literature has converged on machine-learning classifiers whose interpretability layer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Metal Surface Engineering: Enhancing Durability, Performance, and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,298 Views
19 Pages

Understanding human mobility patterns is of great importance for urban planning, traffic management, and even marketing campaign. However, the capability of capturing detailed human movements with fine-grained spatial and temporal granularity is stil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
559 Views
20 Pages

15 June 2026

Reliance on standalone accuracy limits credible assessment of fundus-focused large vision–language models (LVLMs), as high scores often stem from linguistic shortcuts rather than real visual reasoning. This work develops the Cognitive Audit Fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,522 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Study on the Thermal Control Mechanism of Hydrogels Enhanced by Porous Framework

  • Fajian Li,
  • Yinwei Ma,
  • Guangqi Dong,
  • Xuyang Hu and ,
  • Yian Wang,
  • Sujun Dong,
  • Junjian Wang and
  • Xiaobo Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 September 2025

The enhancement effect and mechanism of porous frameworks on hydrogel thermal control performance are key factors in evaluating their engineering applications and performance improvements. This study investigates the enhancement mechanism of porous f...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
35 Pages

26 October 2026

This article presents a framework for brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) based on the motor imagery (MI) and steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) paradigms, with a focus on rehabilitation and robotics applications. The development of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors in Brain–Computer Interfaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
5,393 Views
11 Pages

Tetracycline (TC) residues are harmful to the environment and human body, so it is necessary to develop a highly sensitive probe for rapid detection of tetracycline residues. In the present paper, a novel dye-doped porous metal–organic framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
519 Views
27 Pages

31 July 2026

Urban nighttime lightscapes shape the tourist experience, urban image, and commercial identity, yet existing evaluation methods trade off objective measurement, real-scene coverage, and the interpretation of subjective perception. This study examines...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,077 Views
30 Pages

13 March 2026

Urban heat islands (UHIs) pose escalating threats to public health and thermal comfort in dense urban environments. However, physics-based evaluations of material-specific cooling interventions and their integration into operational digital twin plat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Post-Disaster Urban Futures: Disruptive Planning, Design and Resilience in Climate Crisis and Conflict)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,132 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2025

Volatile organic compound (VOC) monitoring is crucial for environmental safety and health, but conventional gas sensors often suffer from poor selectivity or lack spatial information. Here, we report a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) gas s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nano/Micro-Structured Materials for Gas Sensor)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,464 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2019

Young men do not consume enough fruit and vegetables, increasing their risk for future ill health. To understand what motivates their food choice, a novel conceptual framework that included key concepts from the theory of planned behavior and risk th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,536 Views
18 Pages

17 August 2020

Visual object tracking in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) videos plays an important role in a variety of fields, such as traffic data collection, traffic monitoring, as well as film and television shooting. However, it is still challenging to track the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image Processing and Spatial Neighbourhoods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,702 Views
17 Pages

Rapid urbanization in developing countries has been observed to be relatively high in the last two decades, especially in the Asian and African regions. Although many researchers have made efforts to improve the understanding of the urbanization tren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Web and Mobile GIS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,384 Views
12 Pages

Development of MetaXplore: An Interactive Tool for Targeted Metagenomic Analysis

  • Naima Bel Mokhtar,
  • Elias Asimakis,
  • Ioannis Galiatsatos,
  • Amal Maurady and ,
  • Panagiota Stathopoulou and
  • George Tsiamis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Over the last decades, the analysis of complex microbial communities by high-throughput sequencing of marker gene amplicons has become routine work for many research groups. However, the main challenges faced by scientists who want to make use of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinformatics Research in Bacterial Genomics, Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
989 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2026

Purpose: With the advent of sixth-generation (6G) communication technology, systematic mapping of its use cases to associated technical requirements has become essential for accelerating standardization, guiding R&D investment, and informing poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,771 Views
39 Pages

20 December 2024

In this article, we focus on the association of sound and sense harmony in the collection of sonnets written by Shakespeare in the XVI° beginning of the XVII° century and propose a new four-dimensional representation to visualize them by mean...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithmic Music and Sound Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,444 Views
29 Pages

Research Progress on Metal–Organic Frameworks by Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy

  • Anqi Zheng,
  • Kuibo Yin,
  • Rui Pan,
  • Mingyun Zhu and ,
  • Yuwei Xiong and
  • Litao Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 May 2023

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), composed of metal nodes and inorganic linkers, are promising for a wide range of applications due to their unique periodic frameworks. Understanding structure–activity relationships can facilitate the deve...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,297 Views
27 Pages

27 April 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide benefits through eco-friendliness, cost-effectiveness, and reduction of human risk. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is widely used for autonomous UAV navigation; however, current techniques often oversimplify...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,444 Views
22 Pages

2 December 2024

Design thinking is an innovative methodology that may be applied by small and medium enterprises which emphasizes a human-centered approach to problem-solving, facilitating the creation of novel solutions for complex and open-ended challenges like th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,118 Views
23 Pages

27 August 2025

Forest fires pose severe ecological, climatic, and socio-economic threats, destroying habitats and emitting greenhouse gases. Early and timely warning is particularly challenging because fires often originate from small-scale, low-temperature ignitio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fire Patterns, Driving Factors, and Multidimensional Impacts Under Climate Change and Human Activities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
623 Views
37 Pages

Reasoning-Centric Framework for Open-Set Wild Plant Recognition

  • Dongkai Qi,
  • Chia Sien Lim and
  • Sivakumar Vengusamy

25 May 2026

Open-set recognition of wild plants in natural complex scenes is an important task for plant conservation, ecological monitoring, and precision agriculture. Traditional closed-set learning methods struggle to handle unseen species not covered by the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of AI, Sensors, and IoT in Modern Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,594 Views
14 Pages

6 May 2020

Fecal trait examinations are critical in the clinical diagnosis of digestive diseases, and they can effectively reveal various aspects regarding the health of the digestive system. An automatic feces detection and trait recognition system based on a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Sensor Networks for Object Detection and Tracking)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
12,883 Views
45 Pages

4 November 2024

Remote sensing images contain a wealth of Earth-observation information. Efficient extraction and application of hidden knowledge from these images will greatly promote the development of resource and environment monitoring, urban planning and other...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,381 Views
23 Pages

Desirable Small-Scale Solar Power Production in a Global Context: Local Tradition-Inspired Solutions to Global Issues

  • Nina-Cristina Diţoiu,
  • Altan Abdulamit,
  • Radu Ştefan Tărău and
  • Dan Sebastian Săcui

17 October 2025

The polder in this case study addresses several environmental issues, risk management concerns related to localities served by existing non-permanent dams, energy requirements that can meet a locality’s needs during the renewable energy transit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,628 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2025

An increasing number of juveniles are accessing adult-oriented venues, such as bars and nightclubs, where supervision is frequently inadequate, thereby elevating their risk of both offline harm and unmonitored exposure to harmful online content. Exis...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
848 Views
88 Pages

27 May 2026

The operational control of medium-voltage (MV) distribution networks has conventionally relied on a tightly integrated, multi-platform architecture comprising a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, an Advanced Distribution Managem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Computer-Aided Industrial Design: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,440 Views
18 Pages

Resilience of Interdependent Water and Power Systems: A Literature Review and Conceptual Modeling Framework

  • Konstantinos Oikonomou,
  • Kendall Mongird,
  • Jennie S. Rice and
  • Juliet S. Homer

13 October 2021

As increasing pressures of population growth and climate change arise, water and power systems (WPS) are becoming increasingly interdependent. This interdependency has resulted in an increased potential for cascading failures, whereby the service int...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,376 Views
22 Pages

Mergin’ Mode: Mixed Reality and Geoinformatics for Monument Demonstration

  • Konstantinos Evangelidis,
  • Stella Sylaiou and
  • Theofilos Papadopoulos

31 May 2020

Since smart devices are becoming the primary technological means for daily human activities related to user-location, location-based services constitute a crucial component of the related smart applications. Meanwhile, traditional geospatial tools su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Virtual Reality and Its Application in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,146 Views
14 Pages

Geospatial information plays an important role in environmental modelling, resource management, business operations, and government policy. However, very little or no commonality between formats of various geospatial data has led to difficulties in u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,608 Views
40 Pages

Visual impairment (VI) affects over two billion people globally, with prevalence increasing due to preventable conditions. To address mobility and navigation challenges, this study presents a multi-platform, multi-sensor Electronic Travel Aid (ETA) i...

(This article belongs to the Section Assistive Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
557 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2026

This study proposes a human-centered multimodal framework for characterizing safety-relevant driver functional domains in professional bus drivers. Unlike conventional approaches that rely on isolated psychological or physical assessments, the propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Predictive Techniques in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
512 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2026

Background/Objectives: Healthy Food Corners (HFCs) are zones in Korean convenience stores meant to promote healthier choices, yet how consumers respond to them remains unclear. Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) framework,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Factors Related to Food Choices to Promote Healthy Eating)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
32 Pages

Beyond Visualization: A Frailty-Oriented VR Framework for Social Sustainability in Higher Education

  • Sabina Accogli,
  • Francesco Loddo,
  • Davide Lorenzo Dino Aschieri and
  • Anna Osello

17 May 2026

The growing integration of sustainability into university curricula requires teaching models capable of addressing social and environmental complexity through interdisciplinary and human-centered approaches. In this context, this research investigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Teaching and Development in Sustainable Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
17,296 Views
22 Pages

A Visual Data Storytelling Framework

  • Yangjinbo Zhang,
  • Mark Reynolds,
  • Artur Lugmayr,
  • Katarina Damjanov and
  • Ghulam Mubashar Hassan

While the consumption of visual information becomes a daily commodity integrated into our lives, data visualisation is dominated by dashboards and charts. The main contribution of this article is an advanced way to visualise data as a data story. We...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Informatics and Digital Humanities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,517 Views
18 Pages

Visual Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Urban Forests: A Conceptual Framework

  • Riyadh Mundher,
  • Shamsul Abu Bakar,
  • Marwah Al-Helli,
  • Hangyu Gao and ,
  • Ammar Al-Sharaa,
  • Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof,
  • Suhardi Maulan and
  • Azlizam Aziz
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 November 2022

Visual aesthetic quality is the visual pleasure level that attracts people and makes them prefer certain areas. Visual aesthetic quality is valued and considered for urban forests but remains challenging. This could be due to a lack of understanding...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,449 Views
16 Pages

Climate change has resulted in the need for adaptation tools to provide stakeholders with the ability to respond to a broad range of potential impacts. Geovisualizations serve as powerful engagement tools due to their capacity in communicating comple...

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